You misspelled “proper”

They explicitly asked “for android phones”

Wut? Are you actually suggesting that the entire population of Denmark (aka, the whole country) is just

politicians in the pocket of big corporations

???

M$ is probably paying them handsomely for it.

I couldn’t agree more.

I spent almost a year getting my ducks in a row to sue and reclaim the domain

The cost in time and resources for all of that, vs just registering the domain in the first place. 🙄

Is Americans a

I stop read there.

No, no, no, that can’t be what that means…

Blaze offered a cut of the salary in exchange for full access to the victim’s laptop, Social Security Number, bank accounts, and identity documents

🤦🤦🤦

I’ll believe it when I see it. I kinda get the impression that the primary purpose of this article is that…

McQuary said it expects to begin another round of fundraising soon.

Bingo! That’s the one.

I wish I could remember. It was definitely on YT. I think it was in German with subtitles. It wasn’t long. Possibly was someone’s film school project.

I saw a pretty good short sci-fi film a year or so ago about a woman accidentally finding out that she’s a bot.

peppering my comments with inane remarks to draw a reaction

They’re here, too.

I occasionally see comments to the effect of, “Oh, really? Can you tell me more about that?” That seem pretty likely to just be bots trying to generate data on certain topics for AI training. Thankfully, most people seem to ignore them.

$50/yr for wallpapers?!?! That’s some asshat seeing the enshitification train and thinking, “Man I gotta get on THAT!”

$50/yr?!?!

For WALLPAPERS?!?!

True, but… I mean… who would try to generate something like that as an image? … I take that back. I’m sure somebody would.

Instead of AI slop, that looks to me like someone that doesn’t speak the language hurriedly transcribing it from paper, getting paid by the recipe, and knowing nobody is going to verify anything. AI knows how to spell turkey and kosher.

True, unless that xor wasn’t a typo, in which case all seven of them aren’t those things.

No, wait, I got that backwards. It would still be 4 (ignoring the fact that an xor can’t have three inputs, anyway). (Fuck it. It’s been too long since I’ve needed to know this shit. I need another beer.)

6543 inventions are currently suppressed.

Like what?

/s

That would be great, but this new Internet will somehow need to be able to accurately detect and block AI generated content.

My guess is that the new social media will be people physically going to established common areas in their communities and talking to each other in person, face to face, which has it’s pros and cons.

Back when I was a whee whippersnapper, we would click the reply button and type, “Ok”, or “thanks”, or “Ok, thanks”, or “gotcha”, or “:-)”, or “+1”, or “LOL”, or “LMFAO”, or … I mean, it was onerous, with those extra couple clickity clicks and tappity taps, but somehow we managed.

This should be the top comment. Now, excuse me. I’ve got a donation to go make.

ETA: Done. I felt dirty using Paypal, but I was being lazy, right up until Paypal barfed up some error saying “This credit card can’t be used something something blah blah blah. Let’s try a different one.” In response to which I suddenly found the energy to go find the checkbook and an envelope.